The status of three rare siphonophores (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) described by Tamiji Kawamura: Bathyphysa japonica, Athorybia longifolia and Forskalia misakiensis [PDF]
Scientia Marina, 2002 The holotypes of three species inquirendae siphonophores collected in Japanese waters and described by Tamiji Kawamura were re-examined. It is considered that Bathyphysa japonica is not a valid species because there are no characters that distinguish it ...
Francesc Pagès
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Integrating siphonophores into marine food‐web ecology [PDF]
Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2022 Siphonophores are a clade of understudied colonial hydrozoans (Cnidaria) that are abundant predators in oceanic ecosystems, with species present across the water column.
Elizabeth D. Hetherington +4 more
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Characterizing the secret diets of siphonophores (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using DNA metabarcoding. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Siphonophores (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) are abundant and diverse gelatinous predators in open-ocean ecosystems. Due to limited access to the midwater, little is known about the diets of most deep-dwelling gelatinous species, which constrains our understanding
Alejandro Damian-Serrano +5 more
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Global distribution patterns of siphonophores across horizontal and vertical oceanic gradients [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
Open Research EuropeBackground Siphonophores are diverse, globally distributed hydrozoans that play a central role in marine trophic webs worldwide. However, they still constitute an understudied fraction of the open ocean gelatinous taxa, mainly due to challenges related ...
Cristina Claver +3 more
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Trophic ecology of Octopus vulgaris paralarvae along the Iberian Canary current eastern boundary upwelling system [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Our knowledge of the diet of wild octopus paralarvae, Octopus vulgaris, is restricted to the first 2 weeks of its planktonic phase when they are selective hunters found near the coastline.
Álvaro Roura +5 more
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Transcriptome sequencing of seven deep marine invertebrates [PDF]
Scientific DataWe present 4k video and whole transcriptome data for seven deep-sea invertebrate animals collected in the Eastern Pacific Ocean during a research expedition onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor in August of 2021.
John A. Burns +14 more
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Impact of an eddy dipole of the Mozambique channel on mesopelagic organisms, highlighted by multifrequency backscatter classification. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe impact of a cyclonic (C), an anticyclonic (AC) eddy and transition zone (TZ), which is the area between the two eddies, on acoustic groups representing various mesopelagic organisms, was investigated using a semi-supervised multifrequency ...
Pavanee Annasawmy +2 more
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Dead zone or oasis in the open ocean? Zooplankton distribution and migration in low-oxygen modewater eddies [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2016 The eastern tropical North Atlantic (ETNA) features a mesopelagic oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) at approximately 300–600 m depth. Here, oxygen concentrations rarely fall below 40 µmol O2 kg−1, but are expected to decline under future projections of global ...
H. Hauss +9 more
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Individuality and Aggregativity [PDF]
Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 2017 Why is there a specific problem with biological individuality? Because the living realm contains a wide range of exotic particular concrete entities that do not easily match our ordinary concept of an individual.
Stéphane Chauvier
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The Evolutionary History of Siphonophore Tentilla: Novelties, Convergence, and Integration. [PDF]
Integr Org Biol, 2021 Abstract Synopsis Siphonophores are free-living predatory colonial hydrozoan cnidarians found in every region of the ocean. Siphonophore tentilla (tentacle side branches) are unique biological structures for prey capture, composed of a complex arrangement of cnidocytes (stinging cells) bearing different types of nematocysts (stinging ...
Damian-Serrano A, Haddock SHD, Dunn CW.
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